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Newsmakers of the Week FEBRUARY 07, 2025 | The Indian Eye 24

NEWSMAKERS OF THE WEEK

Selected stories about Indian diaspora from our website www.theindianeye.com

SHANKAR K. PRASAD teaching and learning around the world. In recognition of those efforts, the
launch of the Global Brown lounge and the expansion of the Office of Inter-
Dean of Brown University steps national Student and Scholar Services, Brown was awarded a Senator Paul
Simon Award for Campus Internalization in 2019.
down, joins Carnegie as CSO JYOTISHMAN PATHAK

ASU selects inaugural

dean of School of Technology for

Public Health

yotishman Pathak, an inter-
nationally recognized leader
Jin biomedical informatics and
population health sciences, will be
the inaugural dean of the new School
of Technology for Public Health at
Arizona State University, effective
July 1.
In this critical role, Pathak will
help build and launch a first-in-the-
nation school shaping an emerging
hankar K. Prasad, dean of Brown University’s School of Professional and critically important field that
Studies, SPS since 2022, will step down effective January 31 to join the harnesses the power of technology to
Ssenior leadership team at Carnegie, a higher education marketing and address pressing public health chal-
enrollment strategy firm, as chief strategy officer. lenges and opportunities at the local, national and global levels.
Prasad, a Brown University Ph.D. alumnus, will depart Brown after a “I am truly honored and humbled to serve as the inaugural dean of ASU’s
decade-long tenure that also included appointments as deputy provost, vice School of Technology for Public Health,” Pathak said. “As a leading public
president for academic innovation, and associate director of the Watson In- research university, ASU has fostered a culture of innovation, transformation
stitute for International and Public Affairs. Since his appointment as School and interdisciplinary collaboration — key to tackling pressing public health
of Professional Studies dean, he has led an expansion in master’s degree, pro- challenges such as maternal and child health, mental and environmental
fessional and non-degree programs, and strengthened support for master’s health, infectious diseases and public health communication, among others.
students at Brown. I am excited to partner with faculty, students, staff and communities across
As the third dean of the School of Professional Studies and Brown’s first Phoenix and Arizona to reimagine and advance public health infrastructure,
vice president for academic innovation, Prasad provided executive oversight education and scholarship for the 21st century.”
of SPS’s academic programs, finance and administrative operations, and stu- An integral part of ASU Health, the School of Technology will contrib-
dent life, and worked with academic leaders across campus to develop new ute to the development of a technologically sophisticated workforce that will
areas for growth and success. Prasad expanded Brown’s suite of non-degree power the field of public health and is expecting to welcome its first cohort of
programs, including corporate education programs, certificate programs and students in the Master of Public Health and Master of Public Health Technol-
short courses that focus on rapid skill development. ogy programs in fall 2025.
He developed partnership with the School of Public Health to launch an “Dr. Pathak is an ideal leader for our new School of Technology for
online master of public health program, Brown’s first exclusively online de- Public Health. He has been leading an extremely productive and well-fund-
gree program. ed program of research utilizing medical informatics and digital health tech-
“Shankar has been instrumental in building on Brown’s academic nologies, including AI, to design and deploy solutions to a range of critical
strengths, delivering instruction in compelling new ways and making Brown’s health problems,” ASU Executive Vice President and University Provost
world-class education accessible to a diverse range of learners across the Nancy Gonzales said.
globe,” said Brown Provost Francis J. Doyle III. Pathak is recognized as a leading researcher, educator and innovator in
In a series of leadership roles in the Office of the Provost from 2016 to the field of informatics and behavioral health, and is a generous mentor of
2022, Prasad worked closely with Brown leaders to advance academic ex- faculty and students, Gonzales added.
cellence, improve operational effectiveness and financial sustainability, and Pathak currently is the Frances & John L. Loeb Professor of Medical
promote community. He played important roles in academic continuity and Informatics, professor of health care policy and research in psychiatry, chief
return-to-campus planning during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic plan- of the Division of Health Informatics and vice chair for entrepreneurship in
ning and reorganizations for multiple Brown schools, and the transition of the the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine
Brown Arts Initiative to the expanded Brown Arts Institute. in New York.
He wrote the University’s first global strategy for advancing research, Continued on next page... >>

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